Holiday Time!
“How is Alpha?” is a question I’ve been asked quite a bit in recent months. He’s doing well. At the moment he’s on holidays with my cousin Brendan who is…
Urlaur Pattern
We had the usual Pattern at Urlaur Abbey on August 3rd. A DVD of the Mass, Pageant and family day celebrations will soon be available. I had my own little…
“Just married” …..
I celebrated today (August 12th) with my cousin Lauren Gaffney and Jeremy Sternberg as they married in St Agnes’ Cathedral, Rockville Centre. It was a lovely gathering of family and…
May in August!
NO, I’ve not finally flipped!! It’s time for May in August …. I heard “Kentish Town Waltz” on Mid West Radio yesterday and thought it was a lovely piece of…
Come to the water …..
Oliver McDonagh, was a neighbour of mine and later a classmate in Maynooth. We were ordained one week apart though for two different dioceses – Oliver for Elphin and me…
The Kingdom of Heaven is like …….
How many times the Lord begins his teaching with these words! “The Kingdom of Heaven is like …. A man who finds a pearl of great price, a woman who…
Lifting tiles and not wanting them lifted ….
(It’s Sunday evening and I’m going to try to put here a few thoughts I shared at Masses earlier today in Kilmovee and Kilkelly) Earlier today I went to make…
First Mass
Fr Pádraig presided at two Masses in the Parish of St Philip Howard, Cambridge. I concelebrated at one of them. He did very well. The tradition, as I now understand…
Ordination Day
Not long back from the Ordination Ceremony in The Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Norwich. It was a moving ceremony with a very full congregation and over eighty concelebrating…
It’s been nearly ten years ….
That’s the phrase that has been going around in my head most of today. I’m in Norwich, England. I arrived here earlier today and tomorrow I will attend an Ordination…